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August, order to settle a difference between the plunderers and a friend 

 18'74. Qf ijjg^ a chief called Russuna, who had begged him to interfere 

 when the Njangwe people attacked him. 



In conversation with the leader of this guard, I ascertained 

 that Tipo-tipo's camp Avas close to the banks of the Lomami, 

 an important southern affluent of the Lualaba, and that the lake 

 into which that river flowed was within fourteen or fffteen 

 marches of the camp ; and he said that there were people with 

 Tipo-tipo who had been to this lake, the Sankorra, and had met 

 traders there with large boats. 



Two days afterward Tipo-tipo arrived, and came to see me. 

 He was a good-looking man, and the greatest dandy I had seen 

 among the traders; and, notwithstanding his being perfectly 

 black, he was a thorough Arab, for, curiously enough, the ad- 

 mixture of negro blood had not rendered him less of an Arab 

 in his ideas and manners. He marched to his present camp 

 from Katanga, and, although he had been settled there for near- 

 ly two years, had no idea of the proximity of the settlement at 

 Nyangwe. He advised me that to reach Lake Sankorra the 

 best method would be to return with him to his camp, and then, 

 procuring guides and crossing the Lomami, to march straight 

 for the lake. Natives were constantly passing backward and 

 forward in small parties, and he did not think the journey 

 would prove difficult. With him were two natives of the coun- 

 try west of the Lomami, who confirmed his views, and also gave 

 me some particulars of a lake named Iki, situated on the Lu- 

 wembi, an affluent of the Lomami, and which is probably the 

 Lake Lincoln of Livingstone. 



Tipo-tipo was accompanied by some of Russuna's head-men, 

 and the palave'r concerning the attempted raid on that chief 

 was quickly settled by the declaration of Tipo-tipo that he 

 would side with Russuna if he were again attacked. As his 

 caravan, and those of five or six traders who recognized him as 

 their head, could have brought more gims into the field than 

 the Nyangwo people, and as the traders at Kwakasongo were 

 also likely to have sided with Tipo-tipo, he and his father be- 

 ing two of the richest and most influential of the traveling Zan- 

 zibar merchants, it was thought wise to promise to leave Rus- 

 suna alone in future. 



